Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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B0 RD 0F P BLICATIUNS OFFICERS PROP. E. M. CASTLEBERRY ............ Chairman MARGARET MITCHELL ...... ......... S ecretary EN years of highly successful faculty-student administration is the record of the Board oi Publications, which supervises all matters concerning production of The Campus and The Scarab. Prof. E. M. Castleberry, faculty chairmang Prof. L. A. Iones, University registrar, and How- ard Thornton, public relations director, are faculty members appointed annually by the presie dent. Editors of both The Campus and The Scarab, and The Campus business manager are automatically voting members of the board. This year's students are Paul Bennett, Hi Doty, Margaret Mitchell, and Spec Wayland. Willard Boone, student council president, is, by virtue of his office, an ex-officio non-voting member ofthe group. Besides the task of seeing that publication work runs smoothly, the board meets to award photography, engraving and printing contracts for both the newspaper and the yearbook, and it periodically inspects and passes upon bills and salaries incurred in the production of both. This year the board has had the delicate job of financing The Scarab without aid of advertising revenue. The book is now paid for entirely out of the student activity fund. By board action last September, the football bulletin was combined with and run as a part of The Campus on occasions of home football games. Other publications of the University, not under management of the board, are the month- ly O. C. U. Bulletin, published by the administration, and the Student Handbook issued each fall under Student Council supervision. Ostrakon, the organ of the Ostrakon poetry club, is mimeographed several times during the yeary and the Barbangle, also mimeographed, is re- leased every other week by the University's organization for independent students. The Gold Brick humor magazine is not connected with any branch of the school,-Paul Bennett. 59,1 TOP ROW: Margaret Mitchell, Spec Wayland, Willard if Boone, Hi Doty. BOTTOM ROW: Paul Bennett, L. A. lones, E, M. Castleber- ry, Howard Thornton. 42- 27 -4-

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PRESS CL ..... HERE was nothing to suggest the important position which the Press club was presently to assume when seven members of the near non-existant order gathered about a Var- sity Shoppe table one Friday noon last September to elect officers. ln fact, the anxious scribes did well to hear each other above the competing noises so loud that no one ever knew for certain who the nominees really were. At any rate, when the votes had been counted, the tally sheet read: Hi Doty, president, Margaret Mitchell, vice- president, and Virginia Estes, secretary-treasurer. Doty started the year off with a precedent-smashing pace that would do credit to the rankest New Dealer when he announced weekly meetings-which actually came off. After three months of preparation, the Press club presented its Gridiron show, March 24. The members wrote ten skits, none too gently chiding the Vanities of student leaders and faculty big shots and the show was on. Phil Dessauer, director-manager, turned out a production that even exceeded the state Gridiron Show in some respects, downtown news- paper men were quick to acknowledge. With the curtain hardly down on the Gridiron, the Press club took over the supervision of Scarab Stunt Nite, May 8. This they did in fine style, and to faculty advisor Howard Thornton should go the lion's share of the credit. For it was Thornton whom the club named as its general manager and coordinator for the event. ln November, seven members attended the State Collegiate Press convention at Still- water where Paul Bennett, Campus editor, was named vice-president of the state association. As such he will preside at the convention next year. Membership in the Press club is an honor coveted by all, but attained by only a few journalism students since membership is limited to fourteen. Pledges must write a speci- fied amount of copy for The Campus or Scarab, and cannot be taken into membership until their sophomore year.-Paul Bennett. TOP ROW: Hi Doty, Margaret Mitchell, Virginia Estes, Wishard Lemons, Mary Virginia Elliott, Phil Des- sauer, Bob Spooner. BOTTOM ROW: Paul Bennett, Opal Haymes, Zelma Rice, Clara Neal Srnissen, Stan Pate, A. G.'Myers, Bo- nita Carpenter. -2- 26 -+-

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The GIILD BRIC . 'Y TOP ROW: Stanley Pate, Bob Spooner, Hi Doty. BOTTOM ROW: Margafe. Mitchell, Virginia Estes, Ruth Harris. CARABIA was astounded in April, 1936, when the good yeomen of the faculty did not suppress the current undergraduate evil, which was the new-born Gold Brick, O. C. U. humor magazine. A humor magazine at a Christian college! Horrors! One of the good yeomen explained the tolerance: The faculty has dis- cussed it and decided that it soon will die a natural death. So was the first crisis passed. But it takes more than tolerance to publish a magazine. There's the matter of advertising, for instance. Late in August, 1936, the W. B. Bradbury advertising agency, New York City, received a special delivery from The Gold Brick, It began: Gentlemen: This is our last Word. Either you get us two pages of ads or we go broke and you lose a customer. Short and terse! Bradbury came through, Ameri- ca's leading undergraduate monthly resumed publication, and the second crisis was passed. There was turmoil on the campus when Vol. 11, No. l, of The Gold Brick ap- peared in October, 1936. Some of the jibes and jests were-well, really nowl The axe, the axe! cried the sterner of the profs. Prexy, and the city newspapers, took heed. UO. C. U. EDITORS CALLED ON CARPET. But Prexy was pacific. Promise to keep it clean and you may stay in school. The editors promised and the third crisis was passed. Since then the sailing has been comparatively smooth. The Gold Brick was established in April, 1936, by four freshmen and a sophomore, working together as a communistic organization. They were Phil Dessauer, editor: Stan Pate, managing editor, Hi Doty, feature editor, Harry Roberts, business manager, and Vernon Dennis, advertising manager. The first number, 24 pages, was dedicated by Walter Harrison, Oklahoma City editcr. lt was published in April, May, and Iune. Last September only Stan Pate and Hi Doty were left of the founders. They be- gan the year as co-editors and took in Eob Spooner as business manager. In De- cember Doty withdrew as co-editor and became associate editor and Spooner resign- ed 'from the staff. Editorial assistants named were Margaret Mitchell, right hand gal, Virginia Estes, thinker-upper and Ruth Fears Harris, artist and heartist. Editor Pate and The Gold Brick were the subject of a skit in the Press Club Gridiron, presented in March. Cigarette Song, a light verse by Hi Doty, was re- printed in the April number of College Humor.-Ray Doty. -6- 28 'wL-